WAR: The Ethiopians Are Licked!

In January a fleet white lieutenant general hurled his forces into
Ethiopia. By April the capital had fallen, the Emperor had committed
suicide. By June the last of the British troops had left Ethiopia, to
the great satisfaction of their Sovereign, the late great Queen
Victoria. The year: 1868.

The object of British Lieut. General Napier
was to punish a bad Emperor for having tortured some Englishmen. Benito
Mussolini began his road-building and colonizing invasion of Ethiopia
last October. Three days later Aduwa fell, followed by the fall of
the Holy City...